{"id":956,"date":"2009-02-25T23:59:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T23:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365ficlets.wordpress.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2009-02-25T23:59:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T23:59:47","slug":"365-ficlets-day-292-grift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/techno-mage\/2009\/02\/25\/365-ficlets-day-292-grift\/","title":{"rendered":"365 Ficlets &#8211; Day #292 ~ &#8220;Grift&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe thing is, right, if you get good enough at counting then you have to \u2018ave the cash to go in big and score, \u2018cos after that first night when you walk out with your pockets full, all bets are off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCasinos don\u2019t put up with counters. It may not be cheating, but it\u2019s not the game that they want to play, and they are allowed to refuse you entry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what you are saying is that practice may make perfect, but that we need to make some money up front to be able to afford to place bets that are big enough to reap the big rewards?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, exactly. So anyway, I know this guy, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jim nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a bent banker, and he tells me that he\u2019s onto a winner with fraudulent credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jim\u2019s eyes lit up;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAw mate! I\u2019ve heard about this con. It\u2019s spectacular! You set up a business account for a new venture, and then you drain the account just after the new business loan goes in, then fold the company. Everything\u2019s done with alias\u2019s and when all\u2019s said and done it\u2019s only the insurers that get hurt, yeah!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe thing is, right, if you get good enough at counting then you have to \u2018ave the cash to go in big and score, \u2018cos after that first night when you walk out with your pockets full, all bets are off.\u201d \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d \u201cCasinos don\u2019t put up with counters. It may not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wrUK-fq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}